{"id":125,"date":"2017-02-16T13:56:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T18:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2017-02-16T13:56:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T18:56:22","slug":"new-york-city-experiencing-rise-in-hate-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/125","title":{"rendered":"New York City Experiencing Rise In Hate Crimes…"},"content":{"rendered":"

POLITICO<\/strong><\/a> – There were 56 hate crimes reported in New York City as of Sunday, Feb. 12, up from just 31 incidents over the same time period last year, according to figures released today by the New York Police Department.<\/p>\n

The increase was led by a rise in anti-Semitic crimes, which jumped from 13 to 28. No other category of hate crime was in double digits.<\/p>\n

The uptick follows a national trend, in which activists and police are fielding more reports of hate crimes, which began last year. In early November, New York City police officials reported<\/a> 314 hate crimes to that point in the year, surpassing the 309 that had been reported in all of 2015. (In one incident, an off-duty NYPD officer and Brooklyn native, who is Muslim, was attacked<\/a>, along with her teenage son.)<\/p>\n

SKIP<\/p>\n

Some critics cast doubt on local tallies of hate crimes, preferring the annual figures released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since they apply one standard definition of a hate crime to incidents that take place throughout the nation\u2019s various police districts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Could it be possible that the increase is related to the xenophoba and nationalism the Trump phenomenon usered into America?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

POLITICO – There were 56 hate crimes reported in New York City as of Sunday, Feb. 12, up from just 31 incidents over the same time period last year, according to figures released today by the New York Police Department. The increase was led by a rise in anti-Semitic crimes, which jumped from 13 to … Continue reading New York City Experiencing Rise In Hate Crimes…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimelaw-enforcement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-21","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":256,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/256","url_meta":{"origin":125,"position":0},"title":"When A President Emboldens Haters…","author":"Les","date":"February 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It happened last week in St Louis and Saturday it happened again in New York. 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